Filler for quilts or the like



Patented May 21, 1935 a UNITED STATES FILLER FOR QUILTS OR- THE LIKE Joseph Goodstein, New York, N. Y.

No Drawing. Application November 13, 1934, Serial No. 752,833

4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in fillers for quilts or like articles.

Up to the present time fillers for quilts have comprised either goose down, wool, or cotton, the latter two sometimes being intermixed, the down being lighter andrmore expensive, and wool or cotton alone or in mixtures having been used, due to their lower price and ease in handling.

One of the diificulties in the use of down as a filler involves the necessity of blowing the down into an already completed shell or pocket, which may be either a lining of or the actual'quilt or like article, since the down is so light and fiufify as to make it impossible to apply the same in the form of a layer which may be insertable into a shell or about which a shell or cover maybe formed. On the other hand, with respect to wool or cotton, or a mixture of the two, a'filler in the form of a pad or bat of proper thickness and length has been formed, and the same readily handled for insertion within an assembled cover or top and bottom sections disposed thereadjacent and sewed therearound to form the enclosing cover.

In order to combine the advantages of down involving the resiliency and fiufiiness thereof and the stability of wool, cotton, or wool and cotton mixtures, and at the same time in order to produce a filler more economically, I have intercombined the down with wool or cotton or wool and cotton mixtures in a manner and in such proportions as to provide. a readily workable filler layer or bat. With respect to mixtures of the above products, I have found in general that various combinations of down and 'wool and/or cotton fibres may be applied to form a bat, the maximum down content, however, in such mixtures, being sixty percent for fine down and seventy-five percent for larger down, known as down flakes.

In order to prepare the bat favorably, I first mix about half of the proposed wo'ol and/or cotton fibres, plus about half of the down, in the standard form of mixing machine, and after these proportions have been thoroughly intercombined, I add the balance of down and thewool and/or cotton fibres to the batch in the mixture, and agitate further, so as to produce a properly intermeshed down-wool and/ or cotton fibre batch, this two-batch mixing being necessary in View of the property of the down clinging to the outer periphery of the batch.

The batch is then passed through an apparatus for the purpose of combing and carding the mixture and shaping the same into a layer formation of prerequisite thickness and width. In this layer the respective down-wool and/or cotton fibres are more or less homogeneously intermixed, with the relatively light and fluffy down being entwined and interlocked by the wool and/or cotton fibres, with the result that the pronounced resiliency and lightness of the down is combined with the flexibility and stability of the wool and/ or cotton fibres, all in a definitely shaped mass in the form of a layer of predetermined thickness.

' The bat may then be inserted in a preformed shell or cover or a shell or cover may be made for the bat of predetermined shape, by disposing lengths of material on opposite sides of the layer, stitching the peripheral edges thereof and stitching the usual decorating design on the respective faces of the shell, which design, being formed by stitching passing through the filler, serves as a binding medium to prevent shifting of the filler and/or the respective portions thereof.

The filleras formed comes out of the machine in a long length, which may be readily handled, and lengths of the same may be rolled or out directly as the layer comes out of the machine, the intertwining and adhesion of the down to the wool and/or cotton mixture serving not only to interlock the down with the wool and/or cotton fibres, but also to form a firmly interlocked mixture having the characteristics of resiliency, lightness and flexibility.

As applied in this invention down is that very short-stemmed feather having fineness and softness, and being possessed by birds of the duck family, as, for example, ducks and geese, and certain other aquatic birds. 7

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made to' the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

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1. As an article of manufacture, a filler for quilts or coverlets, in the form of a defined flufiy and resilient layer incorporating down of birds of the duck family intermingled and interlocked with wool fibres.

2. As an article of manufacture, a filler for quilts or coverlets, in the form of a defined fluffy and resilient layer incorporating down of birds of the duck family intermingled and interlocked with wool fibres, the percentage of down in such filler varying up to seventy-five percent (75%) 4. As an article of manufacture, a filler for quilts or coverlets in the form of a defined fluffy and resilient layer incorporating down of birds of the duck family intermingled and interlocked with fibrous material.

JOSEPH GOODSTEIN. 

